*Mumbles.* FYI, I like the fluorescing pickle trick. It's darned cool when you ignore the smell, and it's possible to build an orange-scale picture out of pickles with different brine contents if you arrange them by rows and columns.

...Patience probably wouldn't be flattered by a portrait of her in fluorescent pickle.

Maybe the skeletons would like it better if Alan tried tying a cherry stem with his tongue. They don't have tongues, after all.